It appears government’s decision to impose a 17.5 percent VAT on mobile phones is causing consternation among traders and some economic thinkers.
The Ghana Union of Trader Associations (GUTA) has fired the first salvo and is asking government not to contemplate any such imposition. GUTA’s point is that while they...
Minister for Local Government and Rural Development, Hajia Alima Mahama, took her turn at the Ministry of Information’s Meet-the-Press series in Accra and announced that a total of 196 dam sites have been confirmed under her government’s ‘One village, One Dam’ programme for the three northern regions.
The campaign promise...
Even as we tackle the Fulani menace in parts of the Ashanti Region, a security analyst, Dr. Kwesi Aning, is calling for a revision of the strategy. “Operation Cow Leg, driven by the shoot the cattle strategy, is confrontational, is dangerous, is aggravating the problem,” Aning notes.
Corroborating this stance...
Government’s flagship agriculture programme Planting for food and Jobs is designed to transform the agricultural sector and make it a more productive to ensure food self-sufficiency, as well as providing raw material to increase agro-processing for better returns.
That’s all well and good, but a key sub-sector in agriculture is...
A French Parliamentarian and former Agriculture Minister, Stephane Le Foll, is making a strong case for ecological agriculture which replaces chemical fertilisers with natural methods such as intercropping - a practice that African farmers have utilised successfully for centuries.
It is not uncommon to see maize farmers intercropping with beans...
Africa has the youngest population in the world and each year 10-12 million of its young people seek to enter the continent’s workforce…too many without success.
This highlights the great challenge of youth unemployment but can also be seen as an opportunity for them to become the engine driving new...
The Ghana Standards Authority (GSA) is confident of implementing a voluntary trade facilitation scheme that will ensure products imported into the Ghanaian market meet the required quality, so that Ghanaians are safeguarded against health/safety hazards.
This move is long overdue, since the liberalised economy that we operate in the country...
The newly-installed President of the Association of Ghana Industries (AGI), Dr. Yaw Adu-Gyamfi, has come out strongly to pronounce that this is the time to protect local industries.
Dr. Adu Gyamfi emphasised the fact that it is the private sector which creates job opportunities, and if the high unemployment rate...
Even though the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) originally set notice that if by the end of March this year, businesses failed to obtain a Tax Identification Number (TIN), they would not be able to conduct business.
However, owing to the fact that several businesses in the informal economy are not...
First Deputy Speaker, Joseph Osei-Owusu, has stated that a consignment of cocoa beans destined for Japan has been rejected because of high residue levels.
Osei-Owusu indicated that the detection of metals in the consignment could be as a result of chemicals used by ‘galamsey’ operators in extracting gold from cocoa-growing...